Unit+1+-+The+American+Colonial+Experience

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"huddson2" has been kind enough to send me their entire list of IDs for this unit; I'll add some once I'm done putting up the ones on Sutton's first test.

Bacon's rebellion
- 1676; VA; triggered by Indian-colonist pressure on frontier (Doegs, Susuehannocks) - Berkeley holds monopoly on fur trading licenses; wants to maintain trade with Indians - refuses to

Columbian exchange
- refers to biological transfer of gene pools after Columbus - GOOD PART: Indians get horses (revolutionizing Sioux life); Europeans get veggies (corns, beans, potatos) - BAD PART: Indians get epidemic diseases; Europeans get tobacco and maybe syphilis
 * summary: Indians get bad end of bargain, especially with diseases (which go a long way in explaining why the Europeans triumphed - e.g. widowed land)

Covenant theology
- 1630; tenet of Calvinism and foundational to Winthrop's "City on a Hill" ideal - basis of Puritan plan for colonization of MA; to be religious example to rest of world - emphasizes communal responsibilities over individual rights - if the community follows god's laws they'll get blessings; otherwise they'll get punished
 * religious foundation for American exceptionalism

Sir Edwin Sandys
- treasurer of the Virginia Company; never actually came to the New World - recognizes the problem with motivation; creates reforms to help colonists - establishes headright system-land to colonists and those paying their way to VA - sends women to establish family life as motivation (also, probably: sex) - creates House of Burgesses as representative advisory group; later it passes legislation
 * reforms help stabilize and save Jamestown, though serious problems persist

Squanto
- Patuxet Indian lured abroad English ship in 1614 - avoids slavery; becomes familiar with English language and customs - returns to New England to find tribe wiped out by European disease - saves Pilgrims in 1620; inspired Thanksgiving - turns to extorting other tribes with threats of English violence - dies in 1622 from unknown European disease
 * typical of confusion and strife stemming from cultural conflicts between Indians and Europeans
 * typical also of historians' bias and tendency to romanticize some and condemn others